Example sentences of "[verb] that he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came to spend the night , by agreement , twice a week and she saw him every day but there was no denying that he seemed a visitor and never a member of her household . |
| 2 | Map adds that he made a note of this observation " for it was merrily said , and truly " . |
| 3 | He 's looking resplendent , you did n't know that he has a breastplate of medals , did you ? |
| 4 | ‘ The trouble was , Len himself refused to accept that he had a problem , ’ said Martin . |
| 5 | Given the way that business is suffering under the policies and decisions of this Government , and especially the policies of the Prime Minister , does the Minister recognise that he has a responsibility to ask his officials to deal with businesses in such a way as to enable them , wherever possible , to retain jobs and to keep their businesses going ? |
| 6 | The outcome is the same if he has forgotten that he has a knife on him . |
| 7 | The police initially reported that he had a knowledge of surgery and , due to a message scrawled on a wall over one of the victims , it was suggested that he belonged to a secret organization , the Freemasons . |
| 8 | She began to ask Simon her usual questions and found that he drove a Merc , preferred cacti to ferns and voted Labour but only because there was no alternative . |
| 9 | Was it the case that he had not told Lubor he was having a business dinner with her that evening purely and simply because he did not consider that he had a dinner engagement with her ? |
| 10 | He thinks that he wants a reconciliation , and up to a point he does ; but what he hopes most of all is that Alfred will give his blessing to the new play he has written — a drama of sibling rivalry called Brother Mine . |
| 11 | He thinks that he has a part of his nature which is more in harmony with women than men . |
| 12 | With the minimum of props and the only gesture being a raised paw , he asked for the money for a cup of coffee , guv , sported a patch over one eye concealing a wound sustained in the service of his country , at the same time dragging a wooden leg fitted during the retreat from Moscow while maintaining that he had a bitch and five pups to support and did not know where his next meal was coming from . |
| 13 | They agreed that he had a discretion under the statute whether or not to do so but said that he was not justified in refusing if the result was to frustrate the policy of the Act of Parliament . |
| 14 | With an air of urgency , suggesting that he had a host of other people to see , Wilson handed over a four-page programme guide with a curt : ‘ It 's called Doctor Who . |
| 15 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 16 | Mr Saldykov insists that he has a contract to sell 84 tonnes of red mercury over the next three years to an American company called API International . |
| 17 | Although both he and his advisers stress that he has a killer instinct ( 'I change when I 'm in the ring' ) , Lewis is articulate , intelligent , and good company . |
| 18 | When we arrived at the office , nobody could have guessed that he had a home , or an aged parent , or any interests at all outside his work . |
| 19 | Ken announced that he had a solution . |
| 20 | ‘ Hours of watching Ruddock on video revealed that he had a tendency to drop his left hand low , so he was wide open to my right and we 've been working hard on a left-right combination , ’ he explained . |
| 21 | The story goes that he managed a round on the morning of the wedding and even , it is said , a few strokes later in the day . |
| 22 | Later in life Ramsey believed that he learnt a lot from his short time at Liverpool . |
| 23 | Schreber 's father , who ruled his household like a dictator and believed that he had a mission to reform educational principles , acquired a large following , especially in Germany , and was compared favourably by one of his biographers with Hitler . |
| 24 | the CONDAM regulations actually say the client must ensure that he employs a safety conscious contractor . |
| 25 | If the job surveyor is given autonomy in certain areas then the manager must ensure that he has a system of job control which enables him to keep abreast of the progress of the job and be able to compare surveyor and contractor performance in one operation . |
| 26 | And , having been presented with the customary bottle of champagne by the Wincanton executive , Scudamore added that he felt a lot less pressure than he had last season . |
| 27 | The King thanked him and added that he died a Christian and a member of the Church of England . |
| 28 | The church also disqualified the offspring of concubines from inheriting , but in allowing Swegen to rule Norway Cnut recognised that he had a claim . |
| 29 | Another example of the rich and regal possibilities which religion offered Cnut is provided by a visit which he made to Glastonbury on 30 November of a year which may have been 1032 , when William of Malmesbury says that he laid a cloak decorated with peacocks on the tomb of Edmund Ironside . |
| 30 | This being so , when a person says that he feels a pain in his foot , what he means is not anything like what he means when he says he feels a pin in his foot . |